PANDANALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pandanales mean? 

• PANDANALES (noun)
  The noun PANDANALES has 1 sense:

1. families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae

  Familiarity information: PANDANALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANDANALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Pandanales; Pandanales

Hypernyms ("Pandanales" is a kind of...):

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Pandanales"):

family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family (family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus)

cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae (perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves)

bur-reed family; family Sparganiaceae; Sparganiaceae (coextensive with the genus Sparganium)

Holonyms ("Pandanales" is a member of...):

Arecidae; subclass Arecidae (one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae and Lemnaceae)